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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[128] [See Dan, note 12, p. 26, infra. “Eternal” ="long.”]
VI.—The Testament of Zebulun Concerning Compassion and Mercy.
[129] The Ox. ms. reads 150, and refers the event to two years after Joseph’s death. The text of the Cam. ms. gives an impossible result here, as it would make Zebulun twenty-eight years younger than Joseph, who died at the age of 110. According to the Ox. ms., Reuben (cf. c. 1) and Zebulun would die in the same year, the former at 125, the latter 150. A comparison of Test. Reub., c. 1 shows the most probable solution to be to give the numerals, ριδ', β'.
[130] The derivation of Zebulun seems to be from זבל, a collateral form of זבר, to give. Hence Leah plays on the double meaning of the former verb,Gen. xxx. 20.
[131] Cf. the Targum Ps. Jon. on Gen. xxxvii. 28.
[132] [Deut. xxv. 7, 8, 9. See Lardner on the animus of these quotations from Enoch, as it strikes him, vol. ii. p. 350.]
[133] Cam. ms. διὰ τραγλοκολπητῶν; Ox. ms. διὰ τρωγλοδυτῶν.
[134] [“Finis non determinat probitatem actus.”]
[136] The Ox. ms. reads: “And ye shall return from your land, and ye shall see the Lord in Jerusalem for His name’s sake.” [Heb. vii. 2. At least, Salem is His name.]
[137] [Another of those unequivocal passages which refute Lardner’s charge of “Unitarianism” in this book.]
[138] [Ezek. xlviii. 26, 27. An important example of Hebrew exposition of this prophet.]
VII.—The Testament of Dan Concerning Anger and Lying.
[139] [The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.]
[140] The reading of the Ox. ms., μῂ κινεῖσθε is to be taken.
[141] Cam. ms. εις εἰδέαν; Ox. ms. εἰς ἀηδίαν.
[142] Read κακόν
[143] The Ox. ms. omits from here to τοῖς ἔθνεσι Σωτήρ in c. 6.
[144] ᾽Εκπορεύοντες may be an error for ἐκπορνεύοντες, which Grabe wrongly gives as the reading of the Cam. ms.
[145] [The root idea, p. 18, notes 5, 6, supra.]
[146] [Rev. xxi. 3.]
[147] [Here is the Chiliasm of Barnabas, vol. i. p. 146.]
[148] [That is, not with the glory of His throne above.]
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